September 2010
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Thoughts on BlackBerry Devcon2010 from a...
A few bullet-point thoughts about the announcements at Devcon2010:
RIM recognized Eki Baskoro (an Indonesian developer, BTW) for his contribution in creating the Facebook BlackBerry SDK. First of all, good for RIM to recognize this man’s hard work. Second of all, seriously, RIM? Have you no care at all about Facebook that an outside developer beat you to developing this SDK on his own? In...
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Where Facebook should direct its phone strategy
TechCrunch first broke the news (or speculated) about the Facebook Phone last week and other news publications quickly followed suit. A few other blogs and tech pundits have suggested the phone to have features like dynamic address book and integration with Facebook Credits and Facebook Places. Facebook has since denied this speculation, but Bloomberg then followed up and reported some details...
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Why self-reliance is important for Indonesian...
E27 posted a really nice interview of Natali Ardianto, one of the founders of a web entrepreneurs grassroots movement in Indonesia called #StartupLokal. In creating a critical mass in Indonesia’s still-young startup industry, I think Natali is on a verge of something huge. For this, the interview is a must-read. There’s also one topic in which I’d like to go deeper.
Here’s...
Linchpins and Why Formal Education Means Less in...
I recently read about Feross Aboukhadijeh, a university student that created YouTube Instant, a website that lets people search YouTube video database in real time. YouTube Instant itself was inspired by Google Instant, a new predictive and real time search product from Google. By riding the wave of Google’s exciting new product, Aboukhadijeh got himself quite a recognition with his...
“Pete Hutton, a vice president of technology and systems at ARM, noted that...”
– http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/09/arm-mounts-next-offensive-against-intel/